{"id":258,"date":"2012-08-01T20:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T00:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2012-08-01T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T00:20:31","slug":"language-the-builder-of-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Language: the Builder of Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dr. Brenda Milner, a McGill neurology and neurosurgery professor and researcher, children should learn three languages before the age of seven, as they won\u2019t be self conscious and afraid to make mistakes. Milner believes that learning language is a motor skill; you must practice it to get better, such as practicing a sport. The reward of being bilingual says Milner is \u201cthe broadening of your culture, the broadening of the knowledge of yourself.\u201d She concludes that learning other languages, \u201cis good for our brain\u2026good for our happiness, and\u2026good for society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mHCJvfRzmks\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dr. Brenda Milner, a McGill neurology and neurosurgery professor and researcher, children should learn three languages before the age of seven, as they won\u2019t be self conscious and afraid to make mistakes. Milner believes that learning language is a motor skill; you must practice it to get better, such as practicing a sport. The reward of being bilingual says Milner is \u201cthe<br \/><a class=\"cta\" href=\"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/?p=258\">Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bilingual-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}